Kyritz train station
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.jpg) Kyritz train station
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| Location in the network | Intermediate station, former connecting station |
| Platform tracks | 1 |
| abbreviation | WKY |
| IBNR | 8012142 |
| opening | December 17, 1887 |
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| City / municipality | Kyritz |
| country | Brandenburg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 56 '32 " N , 12 ° 23' 27" E |
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The Kyritz train station is located in the town of the same name in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district in the north-west of Brandenburg. Today it is mainly used for passenger traffic on the Neustadt – Meyenburg railway line . Until 1969 it was the connecting station to the narrow-gauge railway Kyritz - Lindenberg - Perleberg . In December 2019, the new Kyritz Bürgerpark stop opened in the northern area of the station .
location
The station is located at the 12.0 kilometer of the Neustadt (Dosse) –Meyenburg line west of downtown Kyritz, around 500 meters from the market square. Neighboring stations are the former train stations and current stops in Wusterhausen (Dosse) in the direction of Neustadt and Wutike in the direction of Meyenburg, both around seven kilometers from Kyritz. The Kyritz Bürgerpark stop, which opened in 2019, is located in the northern part of the station, about 600 meters from the reception building of Kyritz station, on Perleberger Strasse near a school center.
history
The Berlin – Hamburg railway has opened up the region since 1846 . Originally it was supposed to lead via Kyritz, at that time the capital of the Ostprignitz district . However, a more southern route was implemented. Especially for the development of Kyritz, the Zernitz train station was laid out about seven kilometers southwest of the city and a road was built there, which was extended north to Wittstock in the following years. A power mail connection connected Kyritz with the train station in Zernitz or with Wittstock.
Kyritz did not have its own train station until 1885. The Prussian state railways opened the line from Neustadt (Dosse) to Meyenburg, connecting the trains to the Mecklenburg – Güstrow line, which was opened at the same time, so that a continuous connection from Neustadt via Kyritz to Pritzwalk and Güstrow was created.
In 1897 the narrow-gauge railway network of the small railways of the Ostprignitzer Kreisbahnen reached Kyritz station. The route beginning in Kyritz divided in the nearby Rehfeld into a branch to Breddin and one to Hoppenrade , from where the route continued in the Westprignitz district to Perleberg.
In 1969, operations on the narrow-gauge lines ended. During the GDR era, the station was important for freight traffic. Among other things, the grain loading, for which a siding to a silo south of the station was laid, was important. There were also sidings to a number of other businesses in the city, including the starch factory, the dairy and the cold store. After 1990, freight traffic fell sharply and was finally stopped entirely, except for occasional journeys.
The infrastructure on the Neustadt (Dosse) - Pritzwalk - Meyenburg route and thus in the Kyritz station was leased in 2008 by the Prignitzer Eisenbahn (PEG) infrastructure company . In 2012, RegioInfra Nordost GmbH took over the infrastructure company of PEG and has since operated the infrastructure of the route including that of the Kyritz train station.
After 2010 there were plans to improve the transfer situation between bus and train and to develop a school complex in the north of the city. For this purpose, a combined train and bus stop was to be created on Perleberger Strasse in the north of the city. On March 13, 2014 the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of the new bus stop “Am Bürgerpark” took place. With the timetable change after the summer holidays, the stop went into operation on August 25, 2014. 160 car parking spaces and a storage facility for bicycles were also built on the site. With the creation of the new transfer point, the former bus station on Bahnhofsstraße lost its importance and was closed.
The construction of the new railway station was delayed. The groundbreaking ceremony for the 60 meter long and 55 centimeter high platform was not set until August 2019. Since the timetable change on December 15, 2019, all journeys on regional train line 73 that previously ended at Kyritz station have been extended to the newly constructed stop, and the trains that continue to Pritzwalk also stop there.
Investments
Reception building
The station building is on the eastern side of the track facing the city. At its core, it is a two-storey, four-axle building made of yellow bricks with a flat gable roof. To the north is a single-storey goods shed extension, and to the south is a single-storey restaurant extension. The system essentially corresponds to the station buildings in neighboring Wusterhausen and in Meyenburg, but unlike them (as of the end of 2019), it is not on the district's monument protection list. To the south of the station there are some outbuildings and railroad workers' houses.
Other plants
The systems of the narrow-gauge railway were on the western side of the station facing away from the city. A small dispatch building and a two-tier engine shed have been preserved. The station had several loading and sidings. In 1953 it was also given a pit for trolley traffic .
passenger traffic
The station always had only local significance. For most of its existence, the standard gauge was used by four to six pairs of trains a day, which ran between Neustadt (Dosse) and Pritzwalk, sometimes continuously to Meyenburg or Güstrow.
In the mid-1990s, the offer was clocked. At times it had to be changed in through traffic; Through trains from the direction of Berlin reached the station, railcars continued to Pritzwalk. The Prignitzer Eisenbahn took over the traffic here in 1998. In 1999/2000 there were continuous railcar runs between Neustadt (Dosse) and Güstrow, before traffic on the Mecklenburg route was canceled in September 2000. At the beginning of the 2000s, the train service between Neustadt and Pritzwalk was temporarily reduced to an hourly rate on weekdays, before significant thinning followed in 2006. Further service reductions followed in 2012. Since then, there are only hourly trains between Neustadt and Kyritz, and only two pairs of trains between Kyritz and Pritzwalk on weekdays. At the weekend, three pairs of trains run continuously between Neustadt and Meyenburg. Since it went into operation in December 2019, all passenger trains that also serve Kyritz station have stopped at the Kyritz Am Bürgerpark stop. The current operator of passenger transport is the Hanseatic Railway .
train
| line | course | operator |
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| RB 73 | ( Pritzwalk - Blumenthal (Mark) -) Kyritz Am Bürgerpark - Kyritz - Neustadt (Dosse) | HANS |
Bus (selection)
| line | course | operator |
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| 701 | City line Kyritz: Lindenschule - Untersee | ORP |
| 711 | PlusBus Ruppiner Seenland : Kyritz - Wusterhausen - Neuruppin | ORP |
| 902 | Kyritz - Pritzwalk | prignitzbus |
Web links
- Kyritz station on eisenbahn-mv.de with track plan (PDF) and historical images
Individual evidence
- ↑ State of Brandenburg, Ministry of Infrastructure and Regional Planning (ed.), Berlin-Hamburger Eisenbahn, Classicist station buildings in Brandenburg (PDF; 5.7 MB), p. 34/35
- ^ Official Journal of the Government in Potsdam, 1846, p. 539.
- ^ Official Journal of the Government in Potsdam, 1850, page 23.
- ↑ The Kyritzer Bahnhof has its best days behind it. This turn ends here . In: Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung, July 26, 2013, online .
- ↑ Kyritz - train-bus transfer point "Am Bürgerpark". Retrieved December 9, 2019 .
- ↑ Groundbreaking: A new breakpoint for Kyritz. In: moz.de. August 7, 2019, accessed January 7, 2020 .
- ^ Groundbreaking ceremony for the new Kyritz stop. Ministry of Infrastructure and State Planning, August 7, 2019, accessed December 9, 2019 .
- ↑ Opening of the new Kyritz Am Bürgerpark stop. Hanseatic Railway, December 19, 2019, accessed January 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Kieper, K. (Klaus): Narrow gauge between the Baltic Sea and the Ore Mountains . Revised license edition. Alba Buchverlag, Düsseldorf 1980, ISBN 3-87094-069-7 , p. 158 f .